March 20, 2018 Top 10 cognacs Wine culled from the chalky soil of France’s Cognac region has a tendency to be acidic, thin and unpalatable. This might have doomed the terroir to gastronomic obscurity, had the region’s vintners not been fortunate enough to discover that this wine was excellent for distilling. It so exemplified this ability, in fact, that the region’s brandy varietals gradually assumed the name of their otherwise-maligned home and Cognac became a beverage of choice the world over. Produced from the combination of various white wines (known as “eaux de vie”), Cognacs are aged to maturity in barrels before bottling and distribution. In the course of its centuries-long life Cognac has been considered a drink for the poor, an exclusive property of upscale gentlemen’s clubs and a symbol of hip-hop excess. At present, Cognac distillers draw from all facets of this varied past to create some of the finest tasting and most exclusive liquors on the planet.
March 12, 2018 Met Opera fires James Levine after sexual misconduct probe James Levine, whose 46-year career at the Metropolitan Opera established him as a towering figure in classical music, was fired by the company on Monday after an investigation found evidence of sexual abuse and harassment.
April 12, 2017 Jackie Evancho would sing for Trump again despite backlash Jackie Evancho is ready to be known as her own artist and not as "that girl who sang at Trump's inauguration" or that "young girl on 'America's Got Talent.'"
April 23, 2016 Happy 400th anniversary William Shakespeare: Your genius still fires our imaginations Friday I set off to Stratford-upon-Avon for the annual Shakespeare Birthday Celebrations in his home town.
April 13, 2016 "Mirror, Mirror" star Lilly Collins says new Snow White can take care of herself Once upon a time, Snow White was a fairy tale about a young beauty saved from evil by a handsome prince.
April 5, 2016 Yo Yo Ma's daughter didn't want him playing at her wedding Legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma’s daughter Emily Hornor Ma was recently married in the Berkshires, but asked her father not to play at her wedding because she wanted him to “just be a dad that night" reports The New York Post.
May 7, 2015 Met Opera’s ‘Klinghoffer’: The musical bastardization of a cold-blooded terrorist murder New York’s Metropolitan Opera premiered “The Death of Klinghoffer” Monday night. The Washington Post describes the opera as “based on the brutal murder in 1985 of Leon Klinghoffer, an elderly Jewish tourist shot by Palestinian terrorists and pushed into the sea from the deck of the cruise ship Achille Lauro.”
